Learned Quotes
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Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.
Paul Desmond
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I was forced to go to Cotillion when I was in seventh grade. So I learned what fork is what and dance steps.
Chris Black
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For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.
Maya Angelou
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I once wrestled with an angel. He won, but I learned a few things.
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
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He says hes taking care of them the best he can, ... Weve never charged him because hes always cooperated with us. He tells us every time we come out here that hes not going to do this again. We thought he had learned his lesson, but evidently he hasnt.
Brian Walker
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Edward Abbey said you must brew your own beer; kick in you Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it. I already had a good start. As a teenager in rural Maine, after we came to America, I had learned hunting, fishing, and trapping in the wilderness. My Maine mentors had long ago taught me to make home brew. I owned a rifle, and I'd already built a log cabin. The rest should be easy. I thought I'd give it a shot.
Bernd Heinrich
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I learned my phrasing from Frank. I loved him so much.
Eydie Gorme
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As I learned from chapters past, it's important to try and stay in the chapter that you're in, and enjoy it while it's lasting. Not be constantly worrying about where this step will take you - living in the potential future. Like a good meal. Like a good chef's tasting meal. You don't want to wonder what's next while you're eating the foie gras.
Neil Patrick Harris
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From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Behrens had a great sense of the great form. that was his main interest; and that I certainly understood and learned from him.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.
William Adams The Black Eyed Peas
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Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
Joseph Conrad
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What I learned from my son's birth is that fearing the future is normal but a waste of time.
Eva Amurri
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I've learned to climb a tree pretty fast.
Dickey Betts
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I think I've learned more about Baroque music than any other genre.
Joyce DiDonato
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I’ve learned not to worry about what might come next.
Oprah Winfrey
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I learned from a very young age that no one owes you anything and nobody's gonna give you a damn thing. But you can have anything you want, if you work hard enough for it.
Branch Warren
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I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business.
Ernie Banks
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When you have learned God's secret of trusting, you will see that a life yielded up to His working is one of rest and power.
Katherine Jackson
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What I've learned is that living in public life... it's impossible to have everybody like you. No matter what you do.
Antoni Porowski
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Let us not unlearn what we have already learned.
Diogenes
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Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse!
Archimedes
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The thing I've learned in life is that basically good people can do some really horrific things, and basically bad people can do some really good things.
Wilbert Rideau
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Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can we so closely approach pure contemplation and thought, so closely observe the errors of the senses and of the understanding, the weak and strong points of character.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe